Thanks to Mick LaSalle for the fulsome praise as FRENCH ‘23 looms over the next two weekends. Listen to “the Oracle” when he proclaims Monday 12/4 Roxie Theater as the best noir double bill of 2023 regardless of nationality. Ventura & Blier just nail it!…Tix on sale now!

Thx to Dennis Harvey for his incisive coverage of FRENCH ‘23 48 Hills …you are especially invited to join us on Monday, Dec 4 for French noir Roxie Theater more desperate & perverse than what you get on “the American plan.” WITNESS IN THE CITY & THE SEVENTH JUROR are the bomb!

30s French noir triple bill Sunday 12/3 Roxie Theater reminds us where noir really began: Gabin emerges in LA BANDERA; Vanel grapples with Jules Berry in CARREFOUR; Edwige Feuillère makes a tragic decision in SANS LENDEMAIN. Last seats on sale *now* at roxie.com/film/escape-fr…

Tomorrow (12/3) LA BANDERA leads off FRENCH ‘23’s triple feature Roxie Theater that reveals the still-unheralded rise of noir in 30s France. For a fine overview, read the 2019 essay by Jose Arroyo is on Threads and Bsky at notesonfilm1.com/2019/07/11/la-… & grasp how pivotal it is for both Gabin & Duvivier.

datebook.sfchronicle.com/event/movies-t… 🙏🏼🙏🏼 to Mick LaSalle & G. Allen Johnson for their stellar support of THE FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT for the past decade! It’s a slam-bang finish Roxie Theater Monday (12/4) w/Lino Ventura careening thru nighttime Paris:—come witness the birth of a superstar!

eatdrinkfilms.com/2023/12/01/why… Owen Field gets to the roots of FRENCH HAD A NAME FOR IT & I make another pitch for Bay Area noir fans to join me Monday night (12/4) Roxie Theater for two French noirs that will rock your world! Tix on sale now—come see what you’ve been missing!

What they said! Bernard Blier gives one of the great performances in film noir as a man whose impulsive act of lechery creates a firestorm in his hometown, with knife-twists that just keep on coming. One of the landmarks of “the lost continent” of classic French film noir!

Tonight (7:15)—one night only! Lino Ventura has a dark night of the soul in WITNESS IN THE CITY, the first of two stellar French noirs that conclude FRENCH ‘23 Roxie Theater with that crackling sound of bones being broken. Come see classic French noir you can’t see anywhere else!

It’s spring & time for another unique MCP series: AUTEURES, women who worked under the radar in France’s “cinema de papa” years before the New Wave. 15 rare, terrific films Roxie Theater starting 3/30. Limited seating EXCEPT for the Jeanne Moreau tribute on Monday 4/1. Join us!

Jeanne Moreau appeared in >100 films, but we see only 3 of them. On 4/1 Roxie Theater MCP screens a rare triple feature where she is racy (THE LOVERS), edgy (THE IMMORTAL STORY) & just 21 (LAST LOVE, her 1st film). As Mick LaSalle knows, we must keep our legends alive! Join us!

Humble thanks to Mick LaSalle for his ultra-kind tout of AUTEURES (the women subverting the cinema de papa) playing Roxie Theater 3/30-4/3. 15 rare non-noirs, mostly picked by the brilliant Phoebe Green, give new insight about film & gender. 3 films w/JEANNE MOREAU on Monday 4/1!

datebook.sfchronicle.com/datebook-pick/… An intriguing & apt analogy from Mick LaSalle—imagine Bette Davis & Jeanne Moreau time-melded into the same film as feuding sisters! We can’t give you that, but Monday 4/1 Roxie Theater we bring you a triple dose of Moreau, including her very 1st film!

eatdrinkfilms.com/2024/03/29/mor… Owen Field has a few deadpan moments a la Mick LaSalle in this interview with MCP’s brain trust for the March 30-April 3 “Autueres” series Roxie Theater. Seats still available, join us Monday for “3 with Jeanne Moreau” including her 1st movie (age 21!)

In the words of Mick LaSalle: “don’t miss it!” Tonight, 6:15pm, Roxie Theater. We’re not foolin’!

Three weeks from tonight, FRENCH ‘24 begins Roxie Theater with Brigitte Bardot & Jean Gabin in their only film together: EN CAS DE MALHEUR, a sexy May-December tale from Georges Simenon. Mick LaSalle knows that this has va-va-voom! Full sched below-Tix @ Roxie.com

Thanks to Dennis Harvey for the shout-out: FRENCH ‘24 part 1 kicks off Thursday Roxie Theater with Bardot & Gabin; more Gabin Sunday 10/6 matinee…then the epic 1934 LES MISERABLES. Special pass available for 7 rare gems at roxie.com/series/the-fre…